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Offline trax1

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Large Hadron Collider
« on: August 07, 2008, 01:25:18 PM »
This weekend the Large Hadron Collider will begin to be turned on, this is a particle accelerator that is 17 miles in circumference, and cost over 5 billion just to build.  It will speed up particles to 99.99% the speed of light, and slammed into each other recreating part of the big bang.  There are some fears that it will create a black hole which will destroy the Earth, but the scientist say the chance of this happening are really small.  It won't be turned on completely until September 10th.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/07/1252902.aspx
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2008, 01:27:40 PM »
If before the big bang the entire universe was collected up in an incredibly dense and small ball, what did it collide with to set it off?

























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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2008, 01:40:16 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on August 07, 2008, 01:27:40 PM
If before the big bang the entire universe was collected up in an incredibly dense and small ball, what did it collide with to set it off?

Allah!



















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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2008, 01:47:21 PM »
ace pilots  :furious
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2008, 01:55:49 PM »
William Shatner  :aok
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2008, 01:58:08 PM »
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2008, 02:00:14 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on August 07, 2008, 01:27:40 PM
If before the big bang the entire universe was collected up in an incredibly dense and small ball, what did it collide with to set it off?


mmmmmmmmm........ Good point :O
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2008, 02:01:50 PM »
I just want to take this oppurtunity to say its been nice knowing all... er... most of you.  :salute
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2008, 02:32:53 PM »
Am I the only one who mis-reads the title of this thread? :eek
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2008, 02:40:56 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on August 07, 2008, 01:27:40 PM
If before the big bang the entire universe was collected up in an incredibly dense and small ball, what did it collide with to set it off?

Nice joke but bad premise. I am supposing you know there was no universe until after the bang?
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2008, 03:07:33 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on August 07, 2008, 01:27:40 PM
If before the big bang the entire universe was collected up in an incredibly dense and small ball, what did it collide with to set it off?

The hand of God.
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2008, 03:08:54 PM »
Quote from: Mustaine on August 07, 2008, 02:32:53 PM
Am I the only one who mis-reads the title of this thread? :eek

Mis-read?  Or Freudian slip?  Hmmmm........
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2008, 03:34:09 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on August 07, 2008, 01:27:40 PM
If before the big bang the entire universe was collected up in an incredibly dense and small ball, what did it collide with to set it off?

There was no before.
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2008, 06:09:18 PM »
Put it another way, before the universe, there was nothing, since there was no universe for it to exist in. Then that thing that didn't exist, in a place that also didn't exist, blew up?  :confused:
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Re: Large Hadron Collider
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2008, 06:28:29 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on August 07, 2008, 06:09:18 PM
Put it another way, before the universe, there was nothing, since there was no universe for it to exist in. Then that thing that didn't exist, in a place that also didn't exist, blew up?  :confused:
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Cosmology holds that spacetime started at the BB.

As there was no empty space and there was no time... before ... the BB, before the BB is undifined.  It is off the time map.
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